Re: [PATCH] protect remove_proc_entry

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 16:28 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&remove_proc_lock, flags);
...
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&remove_proc_lock, flags);

Why do an irqsave here? Are you not sure what context it gets called
from?

Daniel

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